Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, (Salisb.) Reichenb.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 8

1. B. spiculifolia (Salisb.) Reichenb. , FI. Germ. Excurs. 414 (1831).

Dwarf shrub with ascending stems 10-15 cm; young twigs puberulent. Leaves 4-5 mm, crowded, in rather irregular whorls of 4-5, linear-oblong, minutely ciliate and often with a stout, terminal, gland-tipped hair; margins revolute, leaving J-J of the lower surface exposed. Flowers 4-merous, in dense, shortly cylindrical or globose, terminal racemes; pedicels 2-3 mm. Calyx 1 -5 mm, with broadly debate lobes scarcely as long as the tube, pink; corolla 3 mm, campanulate, with ovate lobes about as long as the tube, bright reddish-pink. Anthers included, without appendages. Ovary and capsule glabrous. Woods and subalpine pastures; calcifuge. Mountains of Romania and of the Balkan peninsula, southwards to N. Greece.?A1 Bu Gr Ju Rm.